Pests. when they are well fed and watered. 
; In the late fall, the foliage will begin to “flop,” and the bulbs will finally go dor- 
mant. They should be assisted in this by drying off or digging before frost. Stored dry 
and warm in the winter, North or South, the bulbs are ready to plant again in February 
and March, or may be held until June, with protection. They keep best in bdxes of 
porous, finely- ground peat or sphagnum. Near freezing temperatures will injure them. 
‘They may be dried off in their pots and kept warm. | 
We recommend our mixture of high-cofored varieties, if you are not familiar with 
the named kinds, as this will acquaint you with various brilliant types to be found 
in this elegrant group of foliage plants. Mixed bulbs, 1 inch to 2 inches in diameter, 
85¢ each, $3.50 per doz. Named varieties, 50c and $1.00 according to size and variety. 
Assortment of named varieties, our selection, same price as mixed. 
Named varieties: Mrs. W. B. Haldeman, large rose-red with white and green mark- 
seis One of Dr. H. Nehrling’s best, 50c. 
Mrs. Edith Mead, white center with green lines and border, 50c. 
Mrs. F. Sander, green with rose and gold marbling, 50c. 
Thomas Tomlinson, handsome deep rose center, green border, $1.00. 
Cendidum, snow white, green veins and border, fine type, 50c. , 
D. M. Cook, creped and marbled green, with plum colored center, 50c. 
scarlet Pimpernel, fine medium-dwarf, scarlet with gold-green border, $1.00. 
Rising Sun, rich green edging, with dotted red and purplish-red center, 50c. 
John Peed, classic showy variety, dark red center of leaf, rich green border, $1.00. 
Stromboli, copper red center, mottled green outside, $1. 50. 
Triomphe de l’Exposition, fine, vigorous, old variety, rose red center, green border, 
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Other varieties, Itacapu, Red: Flame, Crimson Wave, Red Ensign, Queen Victoria, 
Mrs. Fanny Munson, Spangled Banner, etc. 
We have a limited number of bulbs of the arrow and lance types of fancy leaved 
caladiums, mostly originations of T. L. Mead, late of Oviedo, Fla. Mixed types, $1.50 
each; two named varieties, E. O. Orpet and Sea Shell, $2.00 each, as available. 
Caladium argyrites, silvery white and green, the dainty dwarf species (grows about 
six inches high), rare and delicate but utterly charming in a five-inch pot in midsummer, 
$3.00 each, as available. 
THE BIG CRINUM FAMILY 
Crinum lilies are one of the most showy and appealing groups of flowering bulbs 
in the world. They: are easy, some of them so easy they should be in every “lazy 
man’s garden’ in the South. Some of them are more particular as to culture, and 
they are adapted to garden culture wherever the ground does not freeze deeply in the 
lower South and the sub-tropics generally. 
One finds Crinums about old homesteads and plantations in Finegan lower Georgia, 
Alabama and around the Gulf Coast, and they thrive up into Tennessee, the Carolinas, 
and along the West Coast in California, even to Washington. 
To the garden lovers of the South, Crinums are popularly known as milk and 
wine lilies, angel lilies, spider lilies, etc., all of which is more or less confusing. Some 
of them make very large bulbs, like C.Asiaticum and C.Amabile, which are two of 
the finest and most abundant. eee is a large group of the Crinums which are loosely 
called Milk and Wine lilies, even by the horti- 
- eulturists. These range from large species to tiny 
ones capable of being bloomed in a six-inch pot. 
We have an unknown species which flowers beau- 
tifully from a 2-inch bulb. 
For best results, Crinums like warmth and 
moisture throughout the year. A few species lose 
their leaves at their deciduous periods, like 
C.Moorei and C.scabrum. Many species are eut to 
the ground in winter by frosts in the lower 
South, but come back strongly as soon as warm 
we: ather arrives. 
Most Crinum bulbs are large with long or short 
necks. C. Asiaticum and C.Amabile may have 
buios 8 inches in diameter and up to 25 pounds 
in weight like giant leeks. Naturally these would 
take a tub or half barrel to grow them in the 
greenhouse or conservatory. C.Asiaticum bears 
ers, and C. Amabile has the same type of flowers 
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